Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death

EPA 2018 Christian Book Award Finalist -Biography and Memoir

"When my doctor told me I was dying, I came alive."

What happens when you come face-to-face with your mortality? When your body fails you, what happens to your faith?

Russ Ramsey was struck by a bacterial infection that destroyed his mitral valve, sending him into heart failure and requiring urgent open-heart surgery. As he faced the possibility of death, he found himself awakened to new realities. In the critical days and months tha...